Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 18 shown for “John Wollaston” — 46 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mrs. Joseph Reade
John Wollaston · ca. 1749–52

Martha Washington
John Cheney, born South Manchester, CT 1801-died South Manchester, CT 1885 · ca. 1859

William Axtell
John Wollaston · ca. 1749–52

Unidentified Man
Unidentified Artist · c. 1758

Mrs. Cadwallader Colden
John Wollaston · ca. 1749–52

Lewis Morris
John Wollaston, c. 1710 - c. 1767 · c. 1750

Joseph Reade
John Wollaston · 1749–52

Portrait of Lucy Parry, Wife of Admiral Parry
John Wollaston, born London, England-died Bath, England; active USA 1742-1775 · 1745-1749

Cadwallader Colden
John Wollaston · 1749–52
Pterothamnion recurvatum (Wollaston) A. Athanasiadis & G.T.Kraft
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1965

Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice De Lancey, 1746/47–1832)
Thomas Gainsborough
Pterothamnion recurvatum (Wollaston) A. Athanasiadis & G.T.Kraft
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Feb 1970
Antithamnionella pacifica (Harv.) Wollaston
Artist not stated in the record · May 1901
Antithamnionella pacifica (Harv.) Wollaston
Artist not stated in the record · May 1901

Crouania mucosa Wollaston
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1949
Crouania mucosa Wollaston
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Sep 1992
Hollenbergia nigricans (N.L. Gardner) Wollaston
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1995
Hollenbergia subulata (Harv.) Wollaston
Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1966
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260593 matched · 40 examined · 7 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 20:31 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.